GRE Word List
ENDEMIC
belonging or native to a particular people or country
The meaning of the word endemic is belonging or native to a particular people or country.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| platitude | the quality or state of being dull or insipid |